The swinging sixties with Michael Caine - BBC London News 

The 1940s and 1950s were just as cool.

@@bighands69 ww2 aint cool

Give them a break?!! London is finished ,..ruined by yobs and our so called leaders do nothing! These kids need to learn how to behave in society. Their parents are to blame!

Now it looks like a villige in the middle east and Africa

@@pixie77531 Bombsites were though. Amazing playgrounds.

the 60s was the starting point of 60 years of failure.

Very Good!👍👍

Caine served in the Korean War in the 1950s and probably only came into his own in the 1960s.

Most of the population of the 1960s was working and enjoying the decade.

He wasn't a teenager he was 30

@@michelles2299 He served in Korea and then built a career in film. He was a symbol of the 1960s.

@@michelles2299 I’m aware of that.

@@Art-is-craft Indeed, hence why he’s likely to have a rose-tinted view of the era.

He was in his 30's so not that young.

@@Fireglo 30s is fairly young.

My time was the 70s. That was special too. Also the 80s 90s today!

One could say that the 1960s generation was the first to rebel against the previous one . One could also say that the sixties was the first modern decade of the 20th century. The sixties represents the end of the first half of the 20th century . The sixties killed off the previous grey society . One could say that the sixties began when the DH LAWRENCE novel - Lady Chatterley's lover won it's case for reissue in 1961 . Lady Chatterley's in one sense led to the widespread use of the contraceptive pill . That is very important in that Lawrence wanted women to enjoy the sexual experience . Lawrence took a chance in writing this novel in the 1920's . That chance didn't pay off . The Book was banned from 1929 to 1961 . Maybe Lawrence was a sixties author who was trapped in a chauvinistic previous decade were women were meant to fulfil certain rigid societal roles . So I think the swinging sixties began with Lawrence's novel . I was too young to remember most of the sixties . I was born in 1961 . 2:09

Yes! I was born 1961 and I want go back to 70's/80's! Loved my life back then!

Yeah, amazing what impact demographics has.

He served in the military in the 1950s and only came into his own in 1960 at the age of 27 when his career and life started to take off.

50s music was better than 1960s music.

@@Art-is-craft riiiiiight.

@@yacawntmiss It was music and sing of a higher calibre. The song writing was better as well. The 1950s was the peak in terms of quality when it came to pop songs. After that it was a decline.

@@Art-is-craft Suuurrrre.

That had nothing to do with Europe and the culture there.

what is your age and explain what you mean

I was a kid in the sixties and envied my oldest siblings .... I wanted so much to go to London .

To be someone then you had to have long hair. Cultural fascism.

Can I ask someone who was actually there. ,where the women really that wonderful??..

@@dyangordon6151 No, just the same today. They were liberated - gone was the Victorian hypocrisy.

It was the 1950s and 1960s that ended the Crow laws. That’s how we can reconcile it.

There are always terrible things going on in the World. The swinging sixties of London were not part of the terrible things, but a breath of fresh air.

The 1960s brought nothing of the sort. The woke were hippies and they were a sub culture and were not part of the main 1960s culture, bad architecture came from the post modern period which was in the 1930s, Drugs were not widely used in the 1960s, most 1960s philosophy was classic philosophy and people were not narcissist then. The 1960s was full of hard working people that should have questioned their government more and demanded a more open market place.